Articles: "Awful Calamities now upon Us": the Civil War in Fountain Green, Illinois; "New Notions and Wild Vagaries": Elizabeth Packard's Quest for Personal Liberty; Death and the Maidens: The Newberry Sisters and the Marriage Question; The...

This volume is a comprehensive look at the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from West Coast areas, carried out by the United States Army in the spring of 1942. Considerations that led to the evacuation and the mechanics of the evacuation...